Sunday, September 27, 2015

Most Ridiculous Moment – September 27, 2015

It
was a really big day for the Sunday talks shows, with the Pope in
America, the Speaker resigning, and a Presidential election a mere
400 days away.

On
Face the Nation, soon to be Former Speaker John Boehner ripped
into the conservatives who pushed him out, saying “Absolutely
they're unrealistic,” and “the Bible says, beware of false
prophets.”

He said some members “whip people into

a frenzy
believing they can accomplish things that they know, they know are
never going to happen,” and noted their plan to shut down the
government to get rid of Obamacare “never had chance.”

On
ABC conservative Matthew Dowd was moved by the visit of the Pope, but
is sad, because “the day after the Pope leaves... there's a state
dinner for a human rights violator who could care less about
religious freedom among a bunch of billionaires and millionaires, and
the first lady wears a multi-thousand dollar Vera Wang designer
gown.”

But
it was the Presidential candidates

making the most news.

The
front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, was on

Meet the Press for a much-anticipated sit down interview.
Chuck Todd asked her 18 questions about her e-mails, and oneabout whether she has changed her positions on the Iraq war,
same sex marriage and the Keystone pipeline. Clinton explained that
she already had the server in her basement so it was no big deal just
to add her account to it. Andrea Mitchell observed “But she's
basically not dealing with the question that there is this continued
drip, drip, drip. And she cannot get to the policies that she wants
to talk about.”

Host
Chuck Todd explained that topics like “foreign policy, domestic
policy, a whole bunch of stuff,” will have to wait for his new
daytime cable news show.

On
This Week, Ben Carson said America is currently on “an
inexorable track toward destruction,” and said be believes hardened
criminals from Iraq, Somalia and Russia are sneaking across the U.S.
border, because sheriffs told him and you can't trust the federal
government on this subject.

On
Islam, he was his usual coherent self, saying Islam comes sharia, the
Koran, Muhammad and fatwas, and he might change his mind about Islam
being constitutional

if he were shown the right approved Islamic
text. Also, Carson said, Islam is “against the

rights of gays,”
which is “not compatible

with our Constitution.”

But
the most absurd moments came in Carly Fiorina's interview on Meet
The Press. She defended her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard,
saying she led the company through the difficult times of the Bush
Presidency, and “We went on to grow 150,000 jobs. We quadrupled the
growth rate of the company, quadrupled the cash flow of the company.”

Chuck
Todd pointed out that in the recent debate she condemned Planned
Parenthood over a scene in avvideo that does not exist. She replied
“No, not at all. That scene absolutely does exist,” and said
people are throwing condoms at her to distract from the reality that
“Planned Parenthood is aborting fetuses alive to harvest their
brains and

other body parts. That is a fact.”

When
Todd pointed “even the people
that madethe videos admit it's stock footage,” she replied
“Do you think this is not happening?” and “That is a fact.

It
is a reality.”

When
Todd said she was ducking his question, she doubled down, saying

“No
one can deny this is happening because it is happening,” and called
Planned Parenthood “a political slush fund on top of being
butchery,” and concluded by saying Democrats don't believe babies
are

alive until they leave the hospital.

Panelists
were left dumbfounded by the interview, with conservative David
Brooks noting Hillary Clinton quote “answered

every question very
clearly. Fiorina does

not accept the concept that she should answer
these questions,” and “it's not quite clear that reality matters
to the electorate right now,” and “That's the ethos of the
country right now.”

Eugene
Robinson observed “you correctly told her what the facts are. And
she simply wouldn't deal with it.” Andrea Mitchell agreed she lied,
but also agreed with Brooks, saying Hillary Clinton is “not angry
enough,” and “Carly Fiorina is in tune with the mood of the
electorate. The electorate, actually, in both political parties.”

So
John Boehner is being forced out because he pointlessly shut down the
government, but still did not oppose President Obama enough; Muslims
can't be in government because of fatwas and gay rights; Hillary
Clinton is unpopular because both parties are really angry, and she's
not; and Carly Fiorina is in tune with the electorate, because not
only will she lie repeatedly, even when caught, she refuses to accept
reality at all.